Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.